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Space.com

Returning on the capsule were NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann, Japan’s Koichi Wakata and cosmonaut Anna Kikina of Russia, who splashed down in darkness after streaking over the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa Bay, Florida at 9:02 p.m. …

Spaceflight Now

Two NASA astronauts, a Japanese space veteran and a Russian cosmonaut bid their seven space station crewmates farewell and returned to Earth Saturday night, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico near Tampa after a fiery plunge back through the lower …

Space.com

Russia is investigating the possibility that a manufacturing defect caused two of its spacecraft to spring coolant leaks in a two-month span recently. On Dec. 14, 2022, a Soyuz crew-carrying spacecraft docked at the International Space Station (ISS) …

Phys.Org

Smoke from monster wildfires in Australia caused a chemical reaction that widened the ozone hole 10 percent, researchers said Wednesday, raising fears that increasing forest fires could delay the recovery of Earth’s atmospheric protection against …

Phys.Org

Theoretical physicist Yashar Komijani, an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati, contributed to an international experiment using a strange metal made from an alloy of ytterbium, a rare earth metal. Physicists in a lab in …

NPR

Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata craved sushi, while Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina yearned to drink hot tea “from real cup, not from plastic bag.” NASA astronaut Josh Cassada’s to-do list included getting a …

Phys.Org

Four space station astronauts returned to Earth late Saturday after a quick SpaceX flight home. Their capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico just off the Florida coast near Tampa. The U.S.-Russian-Japanese crew spent five months at the …

The Hindu

Hot on the heels of the disappointing Green Comet, astronomers have just discovered a new comet with the potential to be next year’s big story – C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS). Although it is still more than 18 months from its closest approach to Earth …

ScienceAlert

It’s the classic social faux pas. You’re in a happy clique, surrounded by all your friends – and one by one, you subsume them, absorbing them into yourself, until you’re all alone, a grotesque agglomeration alone in what was once a crowded environment.

SciTechDaily

The study explored the impact of a specific cellular mechanism on physical fitness improvement through exercise training. It also discovered an anti-aging intervention that could slow down the aging-related declines in the model organism.